Why not launch minicom inside a "screen" session from rc.local? You can
run it as the user you want, if you don't want it running as root.
Cam
Theodore Wynnychenko wrote:
quoted text > Hello
>
> I am trying to figure out how to modify the boot process to automatically
> spawn a minicom session. (I know I have many other options for what I am
> trying to do, but I thaught this would be a good way to learn someghing
> about OpenBSD.)
> Basically, I have an old laptop, and (partially as a way to learn something
> about OpenBSD) I want to set it up as a serial console to use with other
> systems. Thus, I am not at all concerned about the security of the login
> process (this laptop, once configured) will not connect to a network, and
> will have (pretty much) all services disabled. I was also going to convert
> the filesystems to read-only, so, a hard shutdown won't disrupt the
> filesystems.
> In any case, here is my question(s). I have been reading the man pages, and
> (in summary) I see that that boot loads the kernel (bsd), pass control to
> init which parses through rc, and then spawns the process getty (as defined
> by ttys). This results in the login prompt, which, when a username is
> entered, calls login which authenticates (using login_passwd), and then sets
> several enviormental variables, before spawning a shell. I think this is
> right?
> So, I think the place for me to modify this process is by changing the
> variable to execute getty in /etc/ttys to instead launch minicom? I tried
> this, but (i guess, obviously) it did not work.
> I assume that I have to set enviormental variables before minicom is
> started? Do I need getty and login to spawn a shell before starting
> minicom? If I need to go through getty and login, is there a way to
> automatically login without password (or any other authentication)? Would a
> simple script that sets the enviornemt variables and runs minicom work?
> I noticed a statement in one of the entries on this mailing list that
> indicated there was a way to do something like this (login automatically /
> start a program automatically on login), and that this information was in
> the FAQ's, however, I can't seem to find it.
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> thanks
